DCE Application Programming Guide

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HP NonStop DCE Application
Programming Guide
Glossary Index Figures Tables
What’s New in This Guide vii
Guide Information vii
New and Changed Information vii
About This Guide ix
Audience ix
Organization ix
Further Reading x
Notation Conventions xii
1. NonStop DCE Application Development Environment
NonStop DCE Components 1-1
Application Development Environment 1-2
Run-Time Services 1-4
NonStop DCE Extensions 1-4
Unsupported Features 1-5
Working in the Application Development Environment 1-7
Environmental Dependencies 1-8
A Sample DCE Application 1-8
The Location of Files
1-9
Using DCE Documentation
1-9
2. Application Design Considerations
Choosing a Server Model 2-1
Model for Structuring Applications 2-1
Standard Multithreaded Server 2-1
RPC Considerations and Limits 2-2
UDP Versus TCP Protocol Sequences 2-2
Capacity and Limits 2-4
Interprocess Communication With Non-DCE Programs 2-6
Access to DCE Servers 2-6
Access to Non-DCE Servers 2-7
Programming Languages 2-8